This Is The Sea chords by The Waterboys

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
D MajorD G+G D MajorD G+G D MajorD G+G D MajorD G+G

Verse:

         D MajorD
These things you keep

            G+G
You'd better throw 'em away

          D MajorD
You wanna turn your back

         G+G
On your soulless days

       D MajorD
Once you were tethered

        G+G
And now you are free

       D MajorD
Once you were tethered

         G+G
Well, now you are free

       D MajorD
That was the river

      G+G  D MajorD G+G
This is the sea

Verse:

              D MajorD
Well, now if you're feelin' weary

             G+G
If you've been alone too long

            D MajorD
Well, maybe you've been suffering from

        G+G
A augmentedA few too many plans that have gone wrong

            D MajorD
And you're trying to remember

              G+G
How fine your life used to be

                D MajorD
Running around banging your drum

                G+G
Like it's Nineteen Seventy-Three

          D MajorD
Well, that was the river

        G+G  D MajorD G+G
Ah, this is the sea

Verse:

            D MajorD
Now you say you've got trouble

          G+G
You say you've got pain

              D MajorD
You say you've got nothing left to believe in

                     G+G
Nothing to hold on to, nothing to trust, nothing but chains

             D MajorD
You've been scouring your conscience

             G+G
Raking through your memory

       D MajorD
Scouring your conscience

             G+G
Raking through your memory

         D MajorD
But that was the river

      G+G     D MajorD G+G
This is the sea, yeah

Verse:

         D MajorD
Now I can see you wavering

        G+G
As you try to decide

             D MajorD
You've got a war in your head

               G+G
And it's tearing you up inside

              D MajorD
You're trying to make sense

                 G+G
Of something that you just don't see

        D MajorD
Trying to make sense now

                  G+G
And you know that you once held the key

         D MajorD
But that was the river

        G+G
And this is the sea, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Instrumental:
D MajorD G+G D MajorD G+G D MajorD G+G D MajorD G+G

Verse:

           D MajorD
Now I hear there's a train

          G+G
Coming on down the line

         D MajorD
It's yours if you hurry

            G+G
You've got still enough time

           D MajorD
And you don't need no ticket

           G+G
And you don't pay no fee

           D MajorD
No, you don't need no ticket

         G+G
You don't pay no fee

           D MajorD
Because that was the river

        G+G
And this is the sea

Outro:

          D MajorD
Well, that was the river

        G+G
And this is the sea

          D MajorD
Well, that was the river

      G+G
This is the sea

          D MajorD
Well, that was the river

           G+G
River, river, river, river, river, river

        D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD  G+G
And this is the sea

  D MajorD    G+G
The sea, hmm hmm

  D MajorD      G+G
The sea, yeah

      D MajorD
Behold the sea

Other versions of This Is The Sea

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